Blah, blah, blah. That has nothing to do with the subject of the thread.
The nation is more or less governed by what those people believe are in their best interest, and one of the main reasons this occurs is because they own the Media/Industrial complex, and use it to disseminate propaganda that they think is beneficial to their acquisition of wealth and power.
This is a capitalist country. Old money and established corporations have their say. But money is more spread around the country than it was in 1950, 1900, or 1850. The things you object to Washington have more of a base in the country as a whole -- certainly in the urban/suburban parts of the country -- than you think.
It's quite insulting to think that the Waltons or Buffets or Huntsmans or Gateses of the country are just tails to some New York Establishment. Whatever they are and for good or ill, they have real power in the country.
Of course they aren't going to make some radical break with the ways of wealthy people elsewhere in the country. They aren't going to take to wearing buckskin clothing, riding mules, spinning their own thread and churning their own butter. But what you think of as New York or the Northeast Corridor is just the way privileged people in all parts of the country think and behave. If you had their money, you'd be like them, wherever you live.
That's true. It is merely a continuation of discussions we've been having on other threads.
The things you object to Washington have more of a base in the country as a whole -- certainly in the urban/suburban parts of the country -- than you think.
With them controlling the news, and the money supply from Washington DC, why would they not?
It's quite insulting to think that the Waltons or Buffets or Huntsmans or Gateses of the country are just tails to some New York Establishment. Whatever they are and for good or ill, they have real power in the country.
Of course they aren't going to make some radical break with the ways of wealthy people elsewhere in the country.
You notice something in the first two sentences, and then explain it in the next. Everybody like to be in the "in" crowd, and much power is derived from social connections. The "elite" society of this nation is in that Washington/New York/Boston corridor. They are our aristocracy.
If you had their money, you'd be like them, wherever you live.
I think you might very well be surprised. I don't like to talk about anything in my own personal life because information can provide your enemies with an advantage, but I grew up being taught that all this "stuff" is transitory, and in the larger scheme of things, meaningless.
I don't value "rich" things. I can afford "nice" stuff, I just don't care about it. If I had their wealth, I would probably try to wreck the existing media system, because I see it as the most dangerous force facing us.